Alt Nets have an advantage, in that any infrastructure they build is exclusively theirs, so they can build network right upto your boundary safe in the knowledge that if you don’t sign up , a competitor can’t come along and use their infrastructure, Openreach have to allow competitors access to their infrastructure, so if they build up to your boundary in the same way , a competitor can say ‘ thanks very much ‘ and use that brand new infrastructure , even before Openreach can use it themselves, so a recent policy change is now Openreach don’t put a toby box outside every address ( in underground service areas ) what the OP calls a ‘latch ’ or ‘pot’ but build from further away ( an actual jointbox ) and only once an order is received…this takes longer that the other method but means the competition don’t get an even bigger leg up .
OR did use the same method as Gigaclear for a few years , and the timescales were similar, but things have changed , Gigaclear don’t have to worry about Openreach using their ‘ toby box’ , Openreach have no choice but to allow Alt Nets , building in the same fashion as Gigaclear has risks to Openreach that Alt Nets don’t have , hence the policy change, even if it makes the waiting time from order to competition longer .
